558 LXIV. CUCURBITACEZ (HOOKER). [ Ctenolepis., 
Staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid; style columnar, without a basal disk, 
stigmas 2-3; ovules few, on 2-3 placentas. Fruit rather fleshy, small, 
subglobose or obliquely quadrate. Seeds few or many, ovoid, much 
compressed or boat-shaped, margins obtuse or acute; testa smooth. 
—Prostrate, rarely climbing, annual, scabrid, tropical and subtropical 
Asiatic and African herbs. Leaves digitately 5—7-lobed or -partite. 
Tendrils undivided. Bracts stipuliform in the axils of the leaves, 
toothed or pectinate. Flowers minute. 
1. GC. cerasiformis, Hook. f.; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér,5, Vi. 18. 
Stem extensively climbing, much branched, very slender, erooved and 
angled, slightly scabrid. Leaves 3—4 in. broad, membranous, scabrid 
on both surfaces, lobes 3, rarely 5, lanceolate, very narrow at the base, 
sinuate-toothed, the middle are often 3-lobed, teeth apiculate ; petioles 
stout, scabrid. Stipuliform bracts orbicular reniform or dimidiate, 
41 in. long, cilia as long as the bract is broad. Male #.: Pedunele 
2 in. long, flowers very minute, in a short crowded raceme, pedicels 
short, slender, spreading. Berry sessile, 4 in. diameter, 2-seeded, red. 
Seeds 4 in. long, oblong-ovate, very concave above and convex below, 
edge sharp; testa smooth, dark brown.—Zchneria cerasiformis, Stocks 1 
Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 149. Bryonia jimbristipula, Fenzl in Kotschy 
Pl. Nub. No. 205. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Between Tette and the coast, Dr. Kirk! 
Also a native of Sind and Guzerat. 
28, ZEHNERIA, Endl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 890. 
Flowers usually dicecious, all fascicled racemose or cymose. Male f..: 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla rotate, 
5-partite, villous within. Filaments 3, rarely 4—5, inserted in thew 
or base of the calyx, stout or slender, often villous; anthers orbicular, 
one 1-celled, two 2-celled or all 1-celled, hairy at the back and sides, 
cells curved, connective not produced. Rudiment of ovary 3-lobe 
Female #1.: Staminodes 3, linear. Ovary ovoid or subglobose ; style 
inserted on a thick annular disk; stigma 3-lobed or stigmas 3; ove 
numerous, on 3 placentas. Berry usually globose. Seeds few or many, 
obovate, flattened or tumid, usually smooth and margined, rarely tu 
bercled.—Slender glabrous scabrid or tomentose scandent or prostrate 
tropical perennial-rooted herbs. Leaves angled or toothed, often mem” 
branous. Tendrils simple. Flowers small, white or yellow. #™ 
shortly peduncled, small. The stems and branches, shiok are inva 
riably angled and grooved when dry, are possibly terete when fresh. 
Male flowers fascicled in the axils of the leaves. 
Leaves scaberulous above, glabrous beneath. Seeds 4 in. lon lensis 
broadly obovate, border thickened . . : . : 1. 2, OE 
Leaves scabrid or pubescent. Seeds lenticula 
E bin. lot border 5 
slightly thickened . 3.) 5 5 G0 = ae Rag ee 2. Z. scrobiculala. 
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